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Untill the age of 6 i used to believe there is only Latvia Rushia England... at the age of 7 I knew there was Germany and Finland.
At the age of nine I felt like a fool mistaking america with england!

But I really didnt need to know so many countries!!!

Flying Beauty Of Latvia

When my brother was very small he somehow got the idea that all people of color were from New York. I don't know how he came up with that.

Big Sis

i used to believe (until a day ago) that amsterdam was a country...
and that banga university is in india

hdavis

i used to belive that spain was on a different planet

charley east

well, when i was 5 years old i was in the former checersslovakia(sorry about spelling its late at night) when they split into slovakia and chek republic, i thought a huge lazer beam from space was goona come and cut the country in-half, meanwhile it was only a line drawn on a map how bizarre

kitana

That Mexico and Canada were part of the US.

LongLiveRock

I used to believe that Brazil was where RUSSIA is supposed to be!

Ciarlene

I used to believe that we all lived inside the Earth and not on the surface... for whatever reason.

Derek

I use to believe that if you dug far enough down into the dirt, you would get to the other side of the world. I think I was about 6 or so.

MandaElaine

When I was in elementary school, I told one of my teachers that when I was older, I wanted to travel the world and find a new country. I was very upset when she told me that she was pretty sure all the countries has already been discovered.

Holly Lynn

I used to think that people on the East Coast or other parts of the US had never heard of California. I was duly impressed when my cousins had heard of the state that I lived in. XD

Aretia in California

When I was younger, I thought that a globe wasn't just a small model of the world, but an ACTUAL little world. Like I thought that tiny little people lived inside of it and just did the same things that we did, just at a microscopic level.

Bernie

When my sixth grade class finally finished memorizing all the countries in the world, I raised my hand to ask where I could find "Orientar." My teacher was confused, until I sang the song... "We three kings from Orientar, bearing gifts we've traveled so far!" I really thought it was a place.

Annamaria

i used to beleive that no one was born outside of the US. i could never understand why anyone would ever leave.

tepix

I used to think Newfoundland, Holland and Denmark were all the same thing, and that it was an island near North America that was its own country.

Anon

I believe that here in Brazil excavated, excavated and excavated the earth was possible to reach Paris, Japan or elsewhere across the world.

M.A.

When i was a kid i thought New York was in London

Lluis

I used to believe that my town was the unique in the world because it was so small and I didn't see much people around there, so for this I thought that there weren't more things at the ended of the mountains and always asked Where comes the money? because my parents sometimes had and sometimes didn't have.

Jessy

When I was younger ,I used to confuse Spain and Alsace

French Anon

I used to think that Chicago was pronounced "Chick-ago". Oh well!

Julia